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Lets just say I read the subject line, opened the message, and...well, I'll just summarize it as "surpassing my expectations".
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I am not proud of this. I simply state it here as a warning to others, that should they go the way of the 6th of VB, they will then understand the shame that goes along with such actions.
Jeremy Falcon
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Speak ye not to the grayed wizard of Up, for he shall lead thee to certain doom. Rewrite ye thine code unto the sea of sharp, using thine own two hands, and thou shalt be saved.
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Verily I say unto thee, that the Lord has given-eth me time to rewrite such an abomination. Alas, I first must harken upon a call to hastily fix-eth a bug.
Jeremy Falcon
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Nay, the existence of such a bug wouldst suggest the vessel to be otherwise. Contemplate thou the very meaning of such, and thou shalt find the creature itself to be thine bug. Bring down thine the power of the sharpened sea, and smite the insect!
Ok... I can't do this anymore... It gives me nightmares about a religious upbringing I didn't even have 
So... Minimum patch to fix the bug, then scrap the damn thing and build one that works. I did that ten years ago at my first hedge fund job... Of course, it shut down before I could decommission the old version...
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Minimum patch to fix the bug, then scrap the damn thing and build one that works.
That's the plan. *crosses fingers*
Jeremy Falcon
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Say 3 Hail Bacon's and you're forgiven.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code
And when you're done don't forget to do a ritual burning of your computer... 
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Good thinking.
Jeremy Falcon
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And how are you planning to compile it.
Some of the old VB6 code we have will only run when compiled on an old XP computer rather than anything newer. (it will compile on 7, but not run properly)
I have to keep a XP virtual machine just for the task.. (I'm hoping to have got rid of all VB6 programs in the next 12 months.. Yipee)
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I'm not actually. The build process is on another machine. I just need to edit some code and hope to God it doesn't crash.
Jeremy Falcon
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I assume you were getting paid for such a service... which goes to show your just a tart like the rest of us 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Hey man, money talks.
Jeremy Falcon
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What have they done with you? Tortured with money, drugs or waterboarding? 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Florida beaches. I was teased with Florida beaches.
Jeremy Falcon
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Did you add a DoEvents() so it looked like it was multithreading?
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I hope you did so on a VM, so all you need to do is a secure erase of the VM files, rather than calling in the hazmat team.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Nah man, I went bareback. Live on the edge.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm rather shocked it is willing to run under Windows 7. Or are you running it in a Windows 2000 VM?
Software Zen: delete this;
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So far it seems to be working under compatibility mode for XP SP3 and running it with admin privileges.
Jeremy Falcon
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Lucky you.
We have a body of code we maintain with Visual Studio 2003  . It runs under Win7, but with a number of options set on the shortcut to make it run: admin and a couple graphics things turned off. It also has a bug in that if you run under the debugger, you then have to exit VS2003 before compiling again. The debugger fails to close a handle to the debugger symbols file, which causes subsequent compiles to fail.
Software Zen: delete this;
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How cool is that! I would love to tinker with some old vb6 code; brings back the old days. You should write an article about it. 
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
You do know that, after seeing VB, Satan added another level of Hell just for us programmers! In fact, there are all sorts of rooms in the level, especially tailored for Javascript and Ruby on Rails as well. The irony is that people who go there actually think they died and went to heaven, hahahaha!
Marc
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